Tuesday, May 14, 2019

The State Cops destroyed citations.... is now confirmed

Lifted from the Globe. This is just a small few lines of the whole story. But it is now a matter of fact that someone in a very high position at the State Police ordered those citations destroyed. There will be a separate criminal investigation, separate from the OT scandal. And all Gov Baker does is say it's all ok now that the Troop E has been disbanded. How wrong he is.

A year into an
internal audit of overtime abuse, the Massachusetts State Police
destroyed years-old traffic citation records, key evidence that federal
prosecutors now say prevents them from examining how far back the
payroll scandal extends.

State Police
acknowledged last week in response to questions from the Globe that the
agency got rid of the citations in January 2018. At that time, agency
spokesman David Procopio said, the department’s own probe had only
considered 2016 misconduct and the department was unaware of any
criminal investigations.

Why does it take so long for the public to find out this stuff. Seems the people at the top are doing their very best to keep this all from public view. SO much for transparency in our government employees